THE STORY GAINED WORLD WIDE FAME, A WOMAN KILLS HER LOVER WITH HER STILLETTO HEEL. SHE SAID THAT FIVE INCH HEEL WAS HER ONLY DEFENSE. THE JURY GAVE HER LIFE IN PRISON AND NOW THE STILLETTO KILLER IS SHARING HER SIDE OF THE STORY. JACE LARSON IS JOINING US WITH MORE OF HIS PRISON INTERVIEW. I KNOW THAT SHE WALKED YOU THROUGH THAT POINT WHERE SHE DECIDED SHE TOOK OFF THAT SHOE AND SHE WAS GOING TO USE IT AS A DEADLY WEAPON. WE'LL PLAY THAT FOR YOU HERE IN JUST A SECOND. SHE CLAIMS HER LIFE WAS IN DANGER IN THE INCIDENT. A JURY DID NOT BUY THAT. JURORS SENT HER TO PRISON, BUT DID NOT HEAR FROM HER BEFORE FINDING HER GUILTY. NOW SHE'S SPEAKING OUT. HERE IS MORE OF MY INTERVIEW WE HAVE NOT SHOWN YOU ON TELEVISION UNTIL NOW. WE'D SEEN HER BEFORE, LOOKED FAR DIFFERENT THAN THIS PHOTO SHOWING HER COVERED IN BLOOD THE NIGHT OF THE MURDER. SHE SAYS UNTIL NOW, NO ONE HAS HEARD THE STORY OF WHAT REALLY HAPPENED. EVERYTHING HAS MISCONSTRUED. I FEEL IT'S AN INJUSTICE. Reporter: THE NIGHT OF THE MURDER, SHE AND HER BOYFRIEND RETURNED FROM DINNER AND DRINKS. SHE SAYS HE ACCUSED HER OF PLANNING TO LEAVE HIM AND THEN ATTACKED HER. HE WAS FURIOUS. HE BECAME ENRAGED. THE PAIN WAS SO EXCRUCIATING AND I WAS IN FEAR AND ALL I HAD WAS MY SHOE, SO I TOOK MY SHOE OFF AND I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO AND I JUST STARTED TO HIT HIM WITH IT AND JUST ASKED HIM TO PLEASE LET ME GO. Reporter: AT TRIAL, PROSECUTORS SAID IT WAS NOT SELF-DEFENSE. DEMONSTRATING HOW SHE HIT HIM 25 TIMES. THEY BROUGHT IN A WITNESS SAYING THAT SHE HEARD WHAT SOUNDED LIKE -- SHE HEARD A MAN'S VOICE SCREAMING AND THAT LIKE FURNITURE BEING TOSSED AROUND AND THAT WAS ME. I WAS BEING TOSSED AROUND. Reporter: THE JURY DIDN'T BELIEVE HER STORY. SHE NOW SPENDS HER DAYS HERE AT THIS STATE PRISON IN LIBERTY COUNTY. I FEEL LIKE I'VE BEEN CUT OPEN AND GUTTED. MY WHOLE LIFE HAS BEEN A CIRCUS AND AN EXHIBITION AND I'VE TURNED INTO SOMETHING I'M NOT. SO AFTER WATCHING THIS, WAS SHE JUSTIFIED? REACTION TO THESE INTERVIEWS, IT'S COMING IN FROM BOTH SIDES. PEOPLE HAVE STRONG OPINIONS AND SOCIAL MEDIA IS ON FIRE. LET ME SHOW YOU SOME OF WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING. MICHAEL SAYS STABBED ONCE FOR SELF-DEFENSE, STAB 20 PLUS TIMES FOR MURDER. LET'S GO TO OUR NEXT COMMENT. LEO SAYS, SHE WAS JUST TRYING TO PROTECT HERSELF AND WHEN YOU GET PUSHED AROUND TOO MANY TIMES, YOU CAN SNAP. OUR LAST COMMENT COMES FROM HEATHER AND SHE SAYS, FAKE. I DON'T BELIEVE A WORD SHE SAYS. AGAIN, STRONG OPINIONS. WE WANT TO HEAR WHAT YOU THINK

HOUSTON -

The woman who killed her boyfriend with a stiletto shoe says she thinks the jury didn't believe her self-defense story because she had never made police reports when she says her boyfriend abused her before.

Ana Trujillo spoke to Local 2 Investigates one month after a jury convicted her of murder.

"I regret many things. They say that [the incident is] my fault because I have no proof that he hurt me because I never reported it. I was protecting him," Trujillo said in a nearly hour-long interview from prison.

"I loved him for the person he wanted to be. He wanted to change badly, but he couldn't," she said.

Trujillo says the night she stabbed Stefan Andersson, he was attacking her after the two spent time at a bar near his luxury condo in the Hermann Park area. They had had a nice night out.

Trujillo says Andersson was drunk and attacked her when the two returned to his condo. She said the two had enjoyed a nice evening prior.

"I walked in and he just turned around and completely changed. He was accusing me that I was going to leave and I wasn't going to come back. That wasn't the first time he did that," she said. "The pain was so excruciating and all I had was my shoe so I just took my shoe off and I didn't know what else to do and I just started to hit him with it and asked him to please let me go."

Trujillo was arrested for the murder.

"I didn't kill him. He attacked me and I defended myself. I was wearing the shoe I was striking him with," she said. "Everything is (being) misconstrued. I feel this is an injustice."

Trujillo did not take the stand during the guilt of innocence phase of her trial.

She says she is speaking out because there are people who are victims of abuse who are afraid to report it to police. Trujillo says if she had reported the abuse it would have been documented and the evidence would have shown Andersson was a violent person.

"The media and everyone has taken the story and has almost turned it into a joke or something funny. These are two real lives. We were two real people and they only want to see what they want to see," she said. "They want someone to be the scapegoat."

Trujillo will be eligible for parole in 30 years, but is serving life in prison.

"I feel like I've been cut open, gutted; my whole life has been a circus and an exhibition. They've turned me into someone I'm not. They accused me of something I didn't do. I loved this man and I protected him," Ana Trujillo said.

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